Hi Alex, the commercial stats program SpaceStat (Biomedware) can both read and write geodatabase files. Second, I've had geodatabase files from ArcGIS 10.3.1 used without any problem by colleagues running 10.0.0. I haven't tried this with geodatabases containing complex topology rules, but for basic combinations of rasters and vectors there's been no problem at all.
Paul -----Original Message----- From: Alex Mandel [mailto:tech_...@wildintellect.com] Sent: Friday, July 15, 2016 11:31 AM To: Paul Lantos <paul.lan...@duke.edu>; r-sig-geo@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] R-sig-Geo Digest, Vol 155, Issue 14 rgdal has a geodatabase driver (gdal in QGIS too) Standardizing on the format is impossible unless ESRI opens the specification. Currently open source tools, even using ESRI SDK can not read Rasters from geodatabase, relation based values in vectors, and have little or no write ability. Also ESRI gdb formats are not backwards compatible with each other, if you write a file with the newest Arc it's only usable with the newest versions. I convert all gdb I receive into either gpkg or spatialite which FYI ArcGIS can read both of those now. For whatever reason ESRI has not implemented the ability to write to those formats yet. -Alex On 07/15/2016 04:40 AM, Paul Lantos wrote: > ESRI / ArcGIS has moved beyond shapefiles too with the advent of > geodatabases. In a GIS environment these are superior to shapefiles in many > ways, and ESRI in its own training and help resources encourage geodatabases > over shapefiles. As far as I've seen only SpaceStat has made itself > compatible with geodatabases. But I think that it's a high priority for R, > QGIS, etc to adopt the geodatabase as a common format, esp to facilitate > interchange with ArcGIS. > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: r-sig-geo-requ...@r-project.org > Date: 7/15/16 6:07 AM (GMT-05:00) > To: r-sig-geo@r-project.org > Subject: R-sig-Geo Digest, Vol 155, Issue 14 > > Send R-sig-Geo mailing list submissions to > r-sig-geo@r-project.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__stat.ethz.ch_mail > man_listinfo_r-2Dsig-2Dgeo&d=CwIC-g&c=imBPVzF25OnBgGmVOlcsiEgHoG1i6YHL > R0Sj_gZ4adc&r=pCiIbVPBNWU0azo0D48ChUH_fawb-FalNVOf1sUn1r4&m=4SG34ZYbVp > VdBftPWPPoE1R-qnPX6Wcprp73RDmi44o&s=QHnuyzs8I2c8iGjeuozlcAfM-aeb77TlAt > 7Q9LU-QrM&e= or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' > to > r-sig-geo-requ...@r-project.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > r-sig-geo-ow...@r-project.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of R-sig-Geo digest..." > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-Geo mailing list > R-sig-Geo@r-project.org > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__stat.ethz.ch_mail > man_listinfo_r-2Dsig-2Dgeo&d=CwIC-g&c=imBPVzF25OnBgGmVOlcsiEgHoG1i6YHL > R0Sj_gZ4adc&r=pCiIbVPBNWU0azo0D48ChUH_fawb-FalNVOf1sUn1r4&m=4SG34ZYbVpVdBftPWPPoE1R-qnPX6Wcprp73RDmi44o&s=QHnuyzs8I2c8iGjeuozlcAfM-aeb77TlAt7Q9LU-QrM&e= > _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
